The Coincidental Traveler

The Coincidental Traveler's sub-title - Adventure Travel for Budget-minded Grown-ups - serves as a 5-word synopsis: "Adventure Travel" ... Hike, meet, climb, snorkel, see, do, feel, taste, witness, play, volunteer, engage. "Budget-minded" ... local accommodation and transport, couch-surf, camping. "Grown-ups" ... seniors, seasoned travelers, or not! Rob and Jaki share simple workable strategies gleaned over a lifetime; strategies for creating exceptional travel experiences by cultivating coincidences. The requirements? A basic level of fitness, willingness to depart from one's comfort zone, free time, and (a little bit of) money. On one recent journey, the authors were invited into a sacred Maori marae in the Cook Islands, witnessed an exploding volcano on Tanna in Vanuatu, canoed and steamboated Australia's Murray River, played cricket in a New South Wales goat field, hiked across Rarotonga, snorkeled New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands, and joined in an island church service - in three languages - on Nguna (followed by a breakfast of fresh fruit on a perfect beach.) Your results may vary. The new Revised and Expanded Edition contains two new chapters about recent budget travel in the Virgin Islands and Ecuador, and an updated Appendix with valuable travel resources. Three maps, 95 pictures, and 28 sidebars help flesh out the 190-page text.